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DESCRIPTION:Divided We Fall (90 min.) (2016) Directed by:  Katherine Acosta\nIn one of 
 the largest mobilizations of labor during the last decade, hundreds of 
 thousands of workers from throughout the country joined together to oppose 
 the union-busting attack by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. This film by 
 Katherine Acosta looks at the important mobilization, including the 
 Wisconsin University Graduate Student Assistants and workers throughout the 
 state who mobilized to stop the attacks on labor and democratic rights.\n 
 Wisconsin was one of the strongest unionized states in the country and the 
 result of the failure of labor to stop his attack has left unions like 
 AFSCME and AFT decimated with a loss of over 50% of the membership. 
 Katherine Acosta provides lessons from how labor and the community fought 
 back.\nSee also: 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm8817727/?ref_=tt_ov_dr 
 (Divided We Fall)\n\nThe Great Sitdown (52 min.) (1976)  BBC 
 Documentary\nThis year we also commemorate the 80th anniversary of the 
 autoworker sit-down of GM Fisher Number 1 in 1937. This sit-down and 
 occupation was a critical turning point in the fight to unionize General 
 Motors, which was the largest industrial corporation in the United States. 
 Auto worker organizers and a Women’s Brigade planned the sit-down at 
 critical plants that if occupied would shutdown the entire company. Women 
 in this struggle also played a critical role by preventing the police from 
 entering the plants and thereby allowing time for mobilization of strike 
 supporters.\n This historic struggle shows that despite the massive power 
 of the largest corporations in the world, workers can win their fight for 
 unionization.\nSee also: 
 http://www.laborfest.net/2017/2017schedule.htm\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2017/2017Films.htm\nhttps://www.loc.gov/rr/business/businesshistory/February/flint.html 
 (lots of good links)\nKraus, Henry. The Many and the Few : A Chronicle of 
 the Dynamic Auto Workers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.\n LC 
 Call Number: HD5325.A82 1937 .F5 1985\n LC Catalog Record: 85001193 
 \nhttp://www.workers.org/2007/us/flint-0308/ (10 part Labor History Series, 
 links at beginning & end of 
 article)\nhttps://libcom.org/history/flint-sit-down-strike-1936-1937-jeremy-brecher\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_sit-down_strike\n\nBRING 
 THE WHOLE FAMILY TO THESE MOVIES BECAUSE THIS IS THE HERITAGE WE DEFEND. 
 Children need a frame of reference and the labor struggles of the 1930s are 
 our rock solid foundation.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/06/14/18800132.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Films: Divided We Fall & The Great Sitdown
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 Second St., San Francisco. Across 2d St from 
 baseball stadium.  Diagonally across King St from MoMo’s Restaurant. Walk 
 the one mile from Market on Second or on the Embarcadero to 801 Second 
 Street or take public transportation as follows: \nT or N train from 
 Embarcadero Station to Second and King Station, go to stadium side of King 
 St, 801 2d St is to the left of the stadium;\n30 or 45 bus from Market and 
 Fifth Streets (Powell Station) to end of line at Townsend between Fourth 
 and Third, then walk one block to 2d Street, then 1 block South on 2d to 
 King St, cross King St to stadium side, 801 2d St is to the left of the 
 stadium; \n47 bus which starts at North Point at Fisherman’s Wharf,  
 travels on Van Ness, 11th St, Bryant and ends at Cal Train Station at 4th 
 and Townsend, then walk on Townsend 2 blocks to 2d Street, then walk 2 
 block South on 2d to King St, cross King Street to stadium side, 801 2d St 
 is to the left of the stadium; \n10 bus which runs from 24th and Potrero, 
 on Rhode Island to 26th St, on Cesar Chavez St  to Dakota, Wisconsin, 
 Connecticut, DeHaro, Rhode Island at 16th St, on Townsend to Second Street 
 AND from Van Ness on Pacific to Battery, on Battery to Second St to Third 
 and Townsend, so get off at 2d Street and Townsend, then 1 block South on 
 2d to King St, cross King St to stadium side. 801 2d St is to the left of 
 the stadium.
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